The Evergreen (1961)

Yeong-shin and Dong-hyuk graduate from college with a cause. They plan to bring education and modernization to farmers living in the rural area of their hometown. When they arrive, the pair immediately get to work, Dong-hyuk builds a village hall and starts aiding the farmers while Yeong-shin tries to gather the children to form a school. However, the villagers at first resent and resist the pair. It is not until one child, Ok-bun, takes the initiative and and learns to read under Yeong-shin’s care that the villages trust the pair and allow their children to be taken from the fields and taught reading, writing and math.

Released Sept. 20, 1961 142 min None+

Genres: Drama

Keywords: tmdb.teacher, tmdb.school, tmdb.poverty, imdb.school-bell, imdb.one-word-title, imdb.death-of-loved-one, tmdb.suffering + 12 more, imdb.school, imdb.village, imdb.south-korea, imdb.schoolteacher, imdb.rural-setting, imdb.poverty, imdb.money-problems, imdb.illiteracy, imdb.education, imdb.classroom, imdb.children, aspectratio.2-35-1